Marysville is the town that disappeared. Once known as Melbourne's honeymooning centre, with its pretty guesthouses and century-old oaks, the town, about 60 miles from the Victoria state capital, is now a smouldering, post-apocalyptic wasteland.From the air, nearby St Fillans resembles a row of campfires - piles of powdery ashes with the embers trampled out. The landscape is deserted, with caravans, boats and burned-out cars abandoned in the middle of roads. Many appear to have been trapped by flying debris - huge sections of what were once walls which have blocked the road. A house under construction is untouched by fire, but the savage winds have scattered its beams, like a child's game of pick-up sticks amid the scorched earth and blankets of smoke.

I recall a Discovery channel (or something) show about this type of disaster. They talked about “super firestorms” and how they are pretty much impossible to defend against once they get so big. Of course on the show it had all of some huge city (Sydney, Melbourne??) being destroyed.

Yeah, but wow! You think you try the best to prepare you and your family for things, and then something really big happens like this.

This is tragic. They suspect arson. Lots of arson. So I hope that the fire detectives down under will be blessed with sufficient clues to nail the SOBs who started this. These fires are hard to control because they are so hot that they create their own weather. Nasty stuff.

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posted on 02/08/2009 5:24:11 PM PST
by SisterK
(building an underground economy one brick at a time)

We have eucalyptus trees here in Southern California. Some places they have taken them out and replaced them with less oily trees. Those babies go up like torches in a wildfire. I bet Australia has plenty of them — aren’t they native there??

We get those firestorms, too, when there’s a forest fire here in So Cal. They do create their own weather, winds. The flames/ embers leap across freeways in the winds. Very scary. And they suspect arson in this? Isn’t that terrible?

It is a follow up to the mods. The story was posted without a link. I sent that to the mods via abuse report, and then added this if they wanted to add the authors and date also missing from the original post.

AUSTRALIA has been singled out as a target for forest jihad by a group of Islamic extremists urging Muslims to deliberately light bushfires as a weapon of terror.

US intelligence channels earlier this year identified a website calling on Muslims in Australia, the US, Europe and Russia to start forest fires, claiming scholars have justified chopping down and burning the infidels forests when they do the same to our lands.

“...The towns of Kinglake and Marysville have been wiped out as if they had been bombed, and authorities are treating the disaster like a terrorist attack, with more than 330,000 hectares of land affected.

Almost half of Victoria may be declared a crime scene, with arsonists believed responsible for several of the fires. Police said an offender implicated in the fatal fires could be charged with the offence of arson causing death, a crime with a maximum penalty of 25 years in jail...”

guess there'll be no donations or sympathy from this lot, BUT IT'S GOOD TO KNOW HOW THEY THINK:

"They burned in this life, and will burn in the next. النَّارُ وَعَدَهَا اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا ۖ وَبِئْسَ الْمَصِيرُ

"I got an email asking for blood donations, entitled 'Australia's worst bushfire disaster: Victoria 09 - what can we do?' (kind of reminded me of another email - 'Gaza Massacre - what can you do?', but the latter deserved attention, and the former deserved the trash can). There's no way my blood is going to run in the veins of some kaafir, nor will I be going out of my way to show any sympathy, pity or offering help. These people are muharibeen, and under the threat of Allah'a 'adhab.

"So my attitude is ha ha serve you right, but may Allah spare the Muslim Ummah of a similar affliction." "My husband read other news and told me of something phenomenal , the bushfire which they calculated happened and was heading at an expected direction. Families of firefighters and those involved were told to stay at a certain area which they through their technology predicted very safe. The course of the bushfire changed violently and like a sea of fire rushed through and was coming so fast those families didnt have time to escape. It came so fast it burnt the trunks of trees and the leaves on top were still green. It was as if it was a deliberate act of God. For a nation which seem indifferent about the mass murder of other people around the world, it would seem that one ofa small scale has boomeranged home."

“...The statement, in Arabic, said that summer has begun so do not forget the Forest Jihad.

The writer called on all Muslims in the United States, Europe, Russia and Australia to start forest fires.

The posting quoted imprisoned Al Qaida terrorist Abu Musab Al-Suri, as saying Jihad is an art just like poetry, music, and the fine arts. There are people that draw and there are others that are jihadists. They both act upon inspiration....”

It's a tragedy, but in a longer view, it's not. Great info like you posted, along with acts like this may be, will finally snap people of their torpor. The "religion of peace" will once again be seen as what it is.

For all the sneering that the French have gotten on FR, there will be a race between Australia and them to see which has the first and the bigger backlash. Remember, they have a history of finally getting a bellyful and reacting extremely.

Too bad about England. I think it's a lost cause--or at least a follower.

Yikes. I forgot about the eucalyptus trees. They are oily boogers. I just heard that the fire detectives have three good leads. Also, I agree with the earlier post, that Australia is plagued with radical muslims and what a way to spead chaos and destruction and punish the Australians for their work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Religion of Peace. My days of tolerance are quite finished.

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posted on 02/09/2009 5:05:37 PM PST
by SisterK
(building an underground economy one brick at a time)

Your post that the fires are jihad makes good sense. Destruction, murder, chaos and punishment for Australia’s work in Iraq. Other than jihadwatch, there are probably more sites or links to targets/information. Islam is leaking through our borders just as fast as the illegal Mexicans and illegal Chinese. A couple of months ago, I read about AK47s streaming discharge while dancing in the streets in Phoenix, AZ. Of course with their stupid Dyke Governor now in DC, perhaps Arizona can take their muslim problem more serious.

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posted on 02/09/2009 5:12:49 PM PST
by SisterK
(building an underground economy one brick at a time)

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